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The OLPC’s third incarnation of the $100 laptop, X0-3, will represent another cutting edge amalgamation of technologies, combining display technologies used in Amazon’s Kindle with the multi-touch interactivity of Apple’s iPad and new tough lightweight case plastics to enclose it all. The MIT Media Lab is expecting to deliver the product to a price point [...]

Papua New Guinea is developing an ICT strategy to guide resource allocation and prioritisation in the education sector. Squarely focused on international trends, the strategy aims to use ICT to leverage particular national comparative advantages, emphasize energy efficiency and new technologies such as thin-client architecture, virtualisation and flash-based computing. The strategy also elevates the XO-PC to a [...]